Health Sciences 3101A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Coroner

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3101A/B
• Professor: Robert Solomon

Document Summary

Legal principles applicable to various services provided to children. Age of consent for those services : mandatory reporting of children in need of protection ( if you have reasonable grounds to believe a. Duties of : hcp + institutions to report unspecified categories of death to a coroner: correctional facilities or suicides or homicides obligation of everyone if they think someone had a suspicious death. Duties of : everyone to report unexpected or suspicious deaths to the police or coroners ( homicides, suicides, deaths resulting from misadventure or negligence) Duties of doctors or nurses: governs obligation of health facilities & regulated health professionals to report communicable, reportable and virulent diseases to medical officer of health. Governs boards of health & broad public health responsibilities: monitoring communicable diseases, sanitization & immunization programs, providing public health education, inspecting restaurants, food processing plants and other establishments.